Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among other foundations , Queen Margaret ( whose efforts on behalf of the Church were duly recognized in her canonization ) set up her own private chapel on the Castle Rock in Edinburgh , now the oldest surviving building in the city . |
| 2 | Many portraits of Wordsworth and Coleridge exist , though unfortunately Dorothy was only painted in her dotage . |
| 3 | Daisy , having taken a fortnight 's holiday to drive Perdita around in yet another hired car , had never felt so shattered in her life . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , a close relationship was sustained , each Sunday evening saw the three brothers and their wives and children gathering together at Rachel Cohen 's home in highly convivial mood , Leonard 's grandmother being especially delighted in her firstborn 's firstborn . |
| 5 | A MURDER inquiry was launched yesterday after an 82-year-old pensioner died in hospital , ten days after being brutally attacked in her home . |
| 6 | He was constantly interfering in her life , lecturing her , ordering her about . |
| 7 | Now must the dagger she had long carried in her heart twist in an agonising dance . |
| 8 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 9 | It was as Ling had said — she had only to look in her heart to see Silas . |
| 10 | And for the first time since he had so suddenly reappeared in her life Laura saw her husband 's shoulders slump , almost as if he was bearing the weight of his own brother 's horrific injuries . |
| 11 | She had never , she said , been so humiliated in her life . |
| 12 | This afternoon , however , she was too much perturbed in her mind to trouble about such things , and she rounded the corner at a run which would have spelt disaster had anyone been coming in the opposite direction . |
| 13 | She keeps nothing hidden from Edward , so confident is she of his love and so secure in her belief in the future that lies before them , unconventional and home-based : |
| 14 | At first Kerry could only collapse in her mother 's arms and ask despairingly : ‘ How will we ever find Ben ? |
| 15 | The testator 's intention once again appears to be that his daughter 's whole estate should devolve according to the rules of intestacy , and so end in her brother 's eager hands . |
| 16 | Then , head bent , she was hurrying back to the villa , suddenly knowing in her heart what had to be done . |
| 17 | Niall took his eyes from the road long enough to glance in her direction . |
| 18 | In the reign of Canute , an aristocratic woman called Godiva attending a vigil of prayer to St Etheldreda in Ely , was so kindled in her love towards the Ely monks , because of the ‘ beauty of the place and of their devotion ’ , that she granted three estates to the monastery . |
| 19 | Finding that Mary Read was totally in control of all work out there , she swiftly gave in her notice . |
| 20 | It had been long planned in her mind . |
| 21 | The ‘ friend ’ then made contact and took the new recruit along to join in her activity . |
| 22 | She then literally jumped in her seat as a huge peal of thunder crashed directly overhead . |
| 23 | She was not sure what their present domestic arrangements were and whether there was some splendid woman in the kitchen who had perhaps failed in her duty on this occasion |
| 24 | The ‘ drift into a law and order society ’ which Hall identifies did not by any means begin with the accession to power of the Conservative Party under Mrs Thatcher in 1979 , and its effects have hardly disappeared with her resignation in 1990 , but the ideology made its presence most felt in her heyday in the early to mid-1990s ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 25 | He made up his mind to tell Miss Claybury in the morning that things must change , otherwise he could no longer stay in her employ . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's my fault , naturally ! ’ she snapped , not halting in her step , but knowing that if Travis had gone to get plastered , as was probably true , it was not on account of her . |
| 27 | The useless question had no sooner formed in her mind when Rainald moved . |
| 28 | For once , Our Cilla was utterly biased in her choice of which of the three hopefuls should win Thursday 's star prize : five years of running the country . |
| 29 | If he nagged , she would beg him not to rummage in her past . |
| 30 | Richard Molesworth 's social rank ( he was nephew of the seventh Viscount Molesworth ) did not compensate in her mother 's eyes for the dangers of marrying a man with a violent temper ( supposedly caused by a head wound incurred in the Crimean war ) . |